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LGBTQ+ shelter and community centre in London

The Outside Project is an LGBTQ+ shelter and community centre in London, UK.

The former Clerkenwell Fire Station which hosted the project from 2018 - 2019

History

The Outside Project is the UK's first LGBTIQ+ Shelter, Centre and Domestic Abuse Refuge. The organisation was launched as a pilot scheme in 2017 to provide emergency crisis winter housing for homeless LGBTIQ+ people. The campaign was led by LGBTIQ+ people with lived experience of homelessness in London, who continue to lead the organisation today. The project received funding from the Greater London Authority in 2018 and reopened as a year-round Shelter and LGBTIQ+ Centre in the former Clerkenwell Fire Station.

The Outside Project shelter remained open at Clerkenwell Fire Station throughout the COVID pandemic, becoming a 24-hour service. The Outside Project opened additional services in response to COVID: STAR Refuge Domestic Abuse Refuge, The London LGBTIQ+ Mutual Aid Group and the COVID Emergency Hotel (2020–2023).

Following the move from Clerkenwell Fire Station in April 2021, The Outside Project LGBTIQ+ Centre reopened in their permanent site on Lant Street, Southwark, London in June 2021. The LGBTIQ+ Centre provides professional housing advocacy, domestic abuse access point, needle exchange, sexual health drop-in and a range of social, support and creative groups. The LGBTIQ+ Centre also functions as an office or meeting space for several other LGBTIQ+ and homelessness grassroots organisations. In 2022 The Outside Project were commissioned for 3 years to provide a specialist LGBTIQ+ Outreach Service in Westminster.

References

  1. "The Outside Project". The Outside Project. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  2. "Brigade Says Farewell to Homeless Shelter". London Fire Brigade. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  3. "Following successful pilot project, U.K. will get permanent LGBTQ crisis shelter". NBC News. NBC News. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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